I look at a photograph. It is an image that I shot some time ago. It has been just long enough since I shot the image that I am fuzzy on the exact circumstances of the time.
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I look at a photograph. It is an image that I shot some time ago. It has been just long enough since I shot the image that I am fuzzy on the exact circumstances of the time.
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Daisuke Yokota is a photographer who lives and works in Tokyo. He is the recipient of the first award from the first Foam Outset Exhibition Fund.
More about the author →Ivan Vartanian is an author, curator, collaborator and publisher of photobook editions. He lives in Tokyo.
More about the translator →Photographer Daisuke Yokota shares five links of what he’s reading, watching, thinking about and loving right now.
‘He takes the knife, cuts the barb from the body, sends it back to the depths of the river.’
An extract from Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott.
‘The past is no longer behind me but in front.’
An extract from About Ed by Robert Glück.
‘How do we imagine the past of those we love?’
Arthur Asseraf on family and fractured memories.
‘you notice / that some of these men / are full of passionate music / while others pain your ears’
Poetry by Elvis Bego.
‘Even in its subtler forms, the act of looking is an act of self-regard.’
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